My online friend Jack Schultz has a great newsletter. Here’s the Archive. He’s a voice for small town America and the small business owner.
I will be posting some of his comments.
Here’s one… Home Cleaning is holding strong.
Taking care of the kids, scrubbing the toilets, checking in on Mom, helping with homework, coaching Little League–more people than ever are paying professionals to do their domestic chores. The trend even has a name: Parental outsourcing.
It’s something of a surprise, since recessions tend to affect the middle class more dramatically than the wealthy, and some services that seem like luxuries are still thriving. But the numbers tell the story. About 10 percent of all U.S. households now hire cleaning help; 70 percent of those clients make twice-a-month appointments (up from a once-a-month majority five years ago).
If you’ve ever wanted to start a business cleaning homes – people evidently are still looking for good help, even in challenging times.
This may be something you could begin part time now while working your “day job” and see it “ramp up” once you’ve been in it part time a while and things start to ease.
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